And here's another quote about 'belief' from the latest edition of 'New Scientist' (this time from the editorial):

"Religious faith has long been considered a special category of belief ... But the more we learn about how beliefs work, the less exceptional religion looks It turns out that almost all of our beliefs are built on intuition, biases and gut instinct: yet another facet of our mental lives over which we possess less conscious control than we like to think.

Science is not exempt. The scientific method is based on verifiable evidence, and is thus NOT A BELIEF SYSTEM [my emphasis], despite frequent claims to the contrary. But scientists, as humans, are influenced by their own beliefs about what is important, what they might find and what their findings mean. YET IT IS STILL THE BEST WAY TO DISTINGUISH WHAT WE BELIEVE FROM WHAT WE KNOW (my emphasis)."

But you don't want to know any of that, do you pete? So you'll probably ignore it!